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Edited on Sat Jun-23-07 11:33 AM by seemslikeadream
Peace won't come by words alonehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tn0fdKsQWgPrisoner 562
Half a thousand, half a hundred
Six times two, pick up your pen
Child, my child, count it up now
That's the number that I mean
It's a number, just a number
One of hundreds, a sign of shame
Each man's jacket had a number
Men had numbers, none had names
Hitler's system took their freedom
Took them prisoner, one by one
For the courage of their convictions
They were tortured, gassed and burned
They took communist, they took pacifist
They took social democrat
Jew and Christian all were prisoner
In the concentration camp
To the camp of Esterwegen
Listen child and understand
They took Carl von Ossietsky
And broke his body - but not his mind
In Berlin upon the 4th of May
19 hundred and 38
The Gestapo with its treatment
Signed his death certificate
Five-six-two his prison number
Listen, child, I beg you please
Keep in mind, always remember,
He got the Nobel Prize for Peace
In the struggle against injustice
He fought hard and he fought long
Child - remember Ossietsky
Peace won't come by words alone
Words and music: Oswald Andrae
Song Lyric as sung by Dick Gaughan
Song of Choice
Early every year the seeds are growing
Unseen, unheard they lie beneath the ground
Would you know before their leaves are showing
That with weeds all your garden will abound?
If you close your eyes, stop your ears
Shut your mouth then how can you know ?
For seeds you cannot hear may not be there
Seeds you cannot see may never grow
In January you've still got the choice
You can cut the weeds before they start to bud
If you leave them to grow high they'll silence your voice
And in December you may pay with your blood
So close your eyes, stop your ears,
Shut your mouth and take it slow
Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear
And later you can say you didn't know
Every day another vulture takes flight
There's another danger born every morning
In the darkness of your blindness the beast will learn to bite
How can you fight if you can't recognise a warning?
Today you may earn a living wage
Tomorrow you may be on the dole
Though there's millions going hungry you needn't disengage
For it's them, not you, that's fallen in the hole
It's alright for you if you run with the pack
It's alright if you agree with all they do
If fascism is slowly climbing back
It's not here yet so what's it got to do with you?
The weeds are all around us and they're growing
It'll soon be too late for the knife
If you leave them on the wind that around the world is blowing
You may pay for your silence with your life
So close your eyes, stop your ears,
Shut your mouth and never dare
And if it happens here they'll never come for you
Because they'll know you really didn't care
Peggy Seeger
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